BCELP Educates Community on Energy Efficiency and Electrical Safety﻿

Our staff
visited the Alice and Jack Wirt Public Library twice in July to educate the
community’s children and their parents about being energy efficient and
electrical safety. The events had large turn outs and were a great success.
The first
event included a light display that showed customers the difference in
operating cost for a LED versus an Incandescent. Everyone who attended
the event won a prize. To win a prize, the only thing participants had to do
was learn something new! In total, 90 prizes were given to children and
adults. The children were very receptive to the educational games and
came back to play again, even knowing they could no longer win another prize.
At the second
event Crew Leader Darryl Szilagyi and apprentices Brandon Kaszmarak and Mitch
Bromund showed residents the effects of downed power line in an electrical
safety demonstration. The demonstration showed how electrical current can
travel through your body using hot dogs to simulate a human finger. They also
taught children why it is important not to pull signal flags out of the ground.
All the children were given plastic hard hats and prize packs just for watching
the demonstration.
We are looking
to do more events like these in the future. So watch out for our events on
Facebook, Twitter, and our events page!